Improved mosquito-canopy



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SAMUEL ROEBU'CK AND `JOHN ROEBUCK, OFv NEW YORK, N. Y.

Letters Patent No. 88,514, lated March 30, 1869.

IMPROVED MOSQUITO-GANOPY.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the sama.

To all whom it 'may concern.-

Be it known that we, SAMUEL ROEBUCK and JOHN RQEBUCK, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Construction of Frames for the Suspension of Mosquito-Canopies; and we hereby declare that the follow ing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to accompanying drawings, forming a part of this speciication, in which-,-

Figure 1 is a side, or horizontalview of our improved frame;

Figure 2 is a vertical view of the same;

Figure 3 is'an enlarged horizontal view of the same, showing the arms extended; and

Figure 4 is an enlarged horizontal view of our improved frame, showing the arms closed or folded.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the figs. l, 2, 3, 4

This invention consists in the combination of a centre-rod or cord with a series of extendingarms, or rods, which, when extended, form a convenient frame for the extension and support of a mosquito-canopy, for use over a bed; the combination ofthe centre-rod or cord and extending-arms being eiected in such a way that the frame, with or without the canopy, can be closed for convenience of packing, or, when in use, by raising'the extended arms vertically, and inclining the outer ends toward the centre-rod or cord.

. A is a rod or cord, having a projecting base, B, onl which is fixed a series of rods, or. arms, b b b, fastened by and working upon a wire passed through holes near the inner ends of the rods, or arms, and secured either to the centre-rod or cord, or to the base of the same.

' (See figsi 1, 3, and 4.)

in a horizontal position, having their inner ends b resting upon the base, B, of the centre-rod or cord A, and

- their outer ends b secured to the netting or other mamotion of the rods, o1' arms b b b when being closed,

andthe dotted lines e e e, iig. l, indicate the position of the arms when theframe is closed. (See also iig. 4.)

The mosquito-canopy frame here represented and.

described, is a modification of one for which Letters Patent of the United States were granted to SAMUEL ROEBUCK, one of the present applicants, on the 28th day of' April, 1863. The object of the present improvement is to vary and improve they appearance and effect of the canopy, by adapting the principle of the frame invented by S. ROEBUCK to a canopy, of which the centre of the top is raised considerably above its outer extremities.

Having thus described our invention,

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- I The upright rod or cord A, forming a support for the top of a mosquito-canopy, when combined with a series of rods, or bars lfb b, the outer ends of which can be raised vertically, and toward the centre-rod or cord, for the purpose of closing the canopy-frame.

rllle above specification of our invention, signed by us, this day of July, 1868.

SAMUEL ROEBUOK. [L. s] JOHN ROEBUGK. [L 5.]

' Witnesses:

En. Foos,

FREDERICK HEBBEN. 

